Fun with FICTION!!!

Good Morning Sunshines!!

This past week we have been wrapping up our "Fun with Fiction" unit and "spying" on our fictional characters.

We made several anchor charts throughout the past few weeks to go along with character traits.  Something we really focused on was inside and outside character traits.  We practiced that the outside character traits are the things we can see on a character (i.e. brown hair, blue eyes, tan skin, smiling, thin, large, crying, dancing around etc.) and sometimes the outside traits can help us infer the inside traits (i.e. happy, excited, sad, etc.). 

We used mentor texts throughout this unit to really spy on our character.  We chose to use Kevin Henkes' books like Owen, Lily and the Purple Plastic Purse, Chrysanthemum, Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick, Lilly's Chocolate Heart, Julius, and there are so many more wonderful titles by Kevin Henkes that are so helpful during a character unit. 

We read a different title each day during our IRA {Interactive Read Aloud} and then referred back to it during our reading workshop mini-lesson when making an anchor chart.

During the last 2 weeks of this unit we wanted to help the students write about their character so I made a couple different handouts to practice inside/outside traits and then after they were strong in identifying those things, we practiced writing down the "evidence" to prove the inside trait.  These student recording sheets are part of my "Fun with Fiction" unit in my TPT shop :)




*Students drew a picture of the character they were spying on in the middle, and then identified the inside/outside traits*

*Then once students mastered identifying the inside/outside traits they picked 2 of the inside traits of one of their characters wrote it on the left and provided evidence on the right*



 

Then during the last week in this unit, the learning really CAME. TO. LIFE!  WOAH!

I made a letter to send home to all parents introducing a "Book Character Day" assignment that the students would do at home for homework.  {The letter to parents and character day assignment are also part of my "Fun with Fiction" unit in my TPT shop!!}  The students absolutely loved presenting on their book character and dressing up to match :) Some of us teachers even got involved...!  Enjoy the pictures below from our Book Character Day...PS these are just  a FEW!!

 

Mrs. Uselton aka Mrs. Twinkle was ready for the day!! :)

One of my amazingly "FANCY" teammates...dressed as Fancy Nancy!

The Pigeon from The Pigeon Wants a Hotdog-LOVE!

 David from David Gets in Trouble-AWESOME!

Animal from Put Me in the Zoo-So FUN!

FLY GUY!! P.S. His mama made those wings from wire hangers and panty hose...can you say CREATIVE!?

 



 

WOW!  Sorry for such a fictional filled post friends, but I just wanted to share it all with you!!! If you are looking for some resources to implement with your character unit don't forget to stop by my TPT Shop for my "Fun with Fiction" unit!!

 

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!